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INTER-STATES LIFE ASSOCIATION,
STANTON. VA.
NJ. ERSKINE MILLER, President.
C. L. COOKE, Secretary.

I. -. COONE Il, oeCEetaIy.
GEORGE c.. JORDAN, General Agent.
VUNHE immense amount of Life Insurance
carried in this country makes it of National
Importance that heads of families should be
able to secure it as cheaply as possible consls-
tent with safety. Especially is this necessary
for the millions of men in moderate circum-
stances, who must earn their living by hard
knocks and in the face of a competition That IS
becoming keener and sharper every day.
If life insurance is not safe it is not worth
carrying, and if it is TOO costly, the men who
most need it cannot carry it all. How to make
it both safe and cheap is the problem OF the
day, and he who solves it will have done a
great and patriotic service for his fellow men.
The Old Line Companies are certainly safe
when honestly managed, but their rates are
so high, that only the rich can afford to carry
such an amount as would provide for q family,
while the great mass of men, and those, too,
whose families most need protection, are COM
PEELED to 60 without insurance, or seek it in
the assessment companies or secret orders.
The fact that these cheaper institutions are to-
day furnishing more insurance than all the Old
Line companies combined, shows how eager
are the mass of citizens for insurance that is
within reach of their means. While these
orders and corporations are furnishing insur-
ance cheap enough, yet, at best, they can only
be looked upon as temporary expedients ana
not altogether satisfactory. But it is plain,
that somewhere between the old line and as
plans there must be a middle ground,
which is not only safe, but just and tai'.. to all
parties.
THE INVERTEBRATES LIFE AssoCIA-
TION of Stanton, Va, has sought earnestly
and honestly to find this middle ground. In
this search they have, at large expense, con-
suited and employed the foremost actuaries
and insurance experts in this country, and up
on their recommendation have adopted a line
of rates which is entirely safe. and yet, is in
the reach of every thrifty and industrious man
who desires to protect his family against his
death.
To ascertain this safe rate, they added to the
actual death cost experienced by the old line
companies an ample reserve, and then a rea-
sona6le amount for expenses and profits, but
SO limited as to compel economical manage
ment. So plain and fair and popular are its
methods that over three millions of business
was done in the first eight months work. It's
rates are fixed, and must be paid, deaths or no
deaths, but are divided into two, four, or six
payments q year, as may best suit the con-
v%enience of the applicant.
Active Agents wanted in South Carolina.
For further particulars, call or send address
to JAS. d. PICKARD, Manager,
Columbia, s. C.
January II If
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COULDN'T HEAR IT THUNDER.

An interesting letter from Mr.. John w.
Weeks, superintendent Of Dekalb Pauper
Home:
From a feeling of gratitude and a desire to
benefit others, 1 voluntarily make this state
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I ever heard of b. b. b., as l know what a
blessing it has been to me. | have suffered
with Bronchial Catarrh for q number of years.
Six months ago was taken with severe pain
in right ear, which in a few days began to dis
charge matter, with terrible and almost un-
bearable palpitation and all sorts of noises in
my head. In ten days after the commencement
of discharge and pain in my ear / began to grow
deaf and in six weeks l was so deaf l could
not hear it thunder.
I was then compelled to use a conversation
tube, and it was often that 1 could not hear
with the tube. / then commenced taking Is.
B. B. and the running Of my ear ceased rum
ming in five weeks, and 1 can now hear without
the tube. My general health has improved.
palpitation ceased, and feel like a new being, and
appreciate the benefit I have received from b.
B. B. (made in Atlanta, Ca with gratitude to
God and thankfulness to the Proprietors for
such a medicine. 1 cheerfully recommend it
to all who are afflicted with deafness and c%atarrh,
Try it; persevere in its use and you VIII De
Convinced of it's value. JOHN w. WEEKS.
Superintendent DeKalb Pauper Home.
Decatur, Ga, May l, 1886.
BRIGEIT'S
1 have been a sufferer from Kidney and Blad-
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Rock Creek, Ala, May 4, 1886.
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A TEXAS LIAR LEFT IN THE SHADE
A Dakotan and a Texan who met in Chi
cago were d~isputing about the greatness OF
their respective districts, and among other
things traded marvellous stories about the
work of the wind in each locality. "How
fast does q Texas norther blow ?" asked
the Dakotan at last. elbow fast? Well,
the only thing that will measure it is light
ming. When a Texas norther is coming
they telegraph ahead, SO people can get
under ground, but when it gets under good
Roadway it will just about III q neck.and-
neck race with the telegram. How fast's
a Dakota blizzard? ?" "Oh you can't meas
ure q blizzard. There's nothing like it.
I've seen a blizzard skin a telegraph mes
sage right off the wires and carry it on
ahead. I never saw but one the speed of
which could be measured. There seemed
to be something the matter with that one.
1t went rather slow, only bout a million
miles q second, and we couldn't tell what
was the matter with it until it went by
when we found it was dragging one of
those Internal Texas northers along be-
hind.n-Chicdgo Tribune.
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THEY HANGED THE GAMBLERS.

"Ever heard of the hanging of the gam
blers at Vicksburg?" inquired Capt. Ogles-
by of a reporter, at the congress OF ancients,
as those worthless gathered in the usual
weekly session. cpl tell you about it.
AS a piece of amateur municipal justice it
took high rankin its day. Tobegin at the
beginning I have to 60 back to Natchez.
That place was in it's day, the most beau
tiful upon the Mississippi River between
New Orleans and st. Louis. 1t is on a
bluff 200 feet high, called the North Chick
asaw Bluff. 1t was, before the war, the
home of wealth, many rich planters living
there. These men owned large cotton
plantations in Mississippi, others had
great sugar plantations in Louisiana. Up
in the city the society was polished and
%aristocratic. There was a little bottom
next to the river, and under the bluff a
narrow strip where there wa a large bus
mess done in the way of merchandising of
various kinds, commission and cotton ship
ping. Silver street, next to the bluff, be-
tween that and the water, was occupied
by whisky sellers, gambling houses, dance
houses and other bad resorts. This bluff
had been gradually settling for three or
four years. Every now and then there
would be a landslide. In 1884 a great
slide made it necessary for the Silver street
occupants to make other haunts. The
gamblers and other ~disreputable denizens
went to Vicksburg, which had, up to that
time, been rather an orderly town and
desirable place to live in. After the arri-
val of the gamble Vicksburg began to
be notorious through its new population.
Many outrages were committed. 1t came
to such a pass that the good citizens OF
Vicksburg held a public meeting to correct
the abuses. Acommittee, with a DR.. Bod
ley at the head, a prominent gentleman,
esteemed by every one, visited the gamb.
ling houses and the whisky shops. Hand
bills had been posted ordering the gamb-
inside of twenty-four hours. When this
committee appeared a fight took place, in
which DIR. Bodley was killed and two or
three other citizens badly wounded. This
murder aroused the most intense feeling
and the highest excitement. Il do not
think a mob was ever organized in a short
err time. Five gamblers who were the
most prominent in the attack that resulted
in murder were taken upon a hill, and all
swung up. 1t was a great day for Judge
Lynch. When they were dead they were
taken down and thrown into graves at
the foot of the gallows, a quantity of their
gambling implements being thrown into
the ditch and buried with them. The
lynchers then took an old scow, and put
ting ten or a dozen more gamblers into it
who were not directly connected with the
murder, pushed them out into the Missis-
sippi without oar or pole of any kind, and
set them adrift. The remaining gamblers
left the town in great haste, glad to escape
with their lives, and for many a long year
thereafter Vicksburg was noted as a high
grade, moral town. cksbury Herald.
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M1istellameuns &eaaing.
CARL lIlNDER,

Sometimes somebody comes to Inc und
asks vhas I Carl Dunder! 1 vhas. All
right. Mr.. Dunder, der people of dis
ward call upon you to take der nomina-
ton for Alderman. You vhas der peoples
choice. You must put yourself in the
handts of your frendts. Und l says to
him
Eyes, 1 hear der peoples calling in a
voice of thunder-shust like der rest OF
'em hear. You and half a dozen more
vhas der peoples. 1 vhas in your handts
to bleed. We 60 at her, spend a tousand
dollar, set 'em up for der poys, bride und
buy und shteal und SANDER, und | vhas
counted in und l shtand oop und claim to
represent der peoples! Oh, no-you can't
play dot racket on mel"
Und sometimes somepody. comes TO- me
und saws vhas I Carl Dunder? 1 vhas.
All right. Say, Mr.. Dunder, l vhas a
friend of yours, und l like to put you on q
good thing where you can make ten tOus-
and dollar slick as grease. Dona' git me
AWAY but I let you in on der groundt
floor. Come oafer in der corner und l
whisper in your ear. Und I says to him {:
"My dear friend, 1 vhas too rich already,
und don't care to make ten tousand dol
lar. 1t vhas my experience in dis Worldt
dot men who have a good thing don't part
nit him under 100 cents on der dollar. l
vhas let in on der groundt floor OF two or
three enterprises when I vhas younger,
und der first I knew / vhaS being let out
through der roof, und I didn't take any
dividends NIT me. I vhas eafer so mooch
obliged to you, but / let you handle it all
und make all der profits"
Und sometimes some more sompody
comes to me and says vhas I Carl Dupder ?
I yhas. All right. Mr.. Dunder, l vhas
in dispute NIT my neighbor aboudt our
fence. We vhas both frients NIT you, und
We vhas agreed dot you vhas an honest
man who would decide dot matter in an
honest vhay. Und 1 says to him:
"Please pass on! Whichever vhay l de-
eide I shall make an enemy n lose a
frendt. Der reward of my honesty would
be an enemy dot might destroy me. If
you hat a dispute und can't settle 1t by
common sense 60 to law. 1t vhas der
peesness of lawyers to abuse all parties,
und of Judges to make decisions"
Und maybe it vas der next week dot
some mans comes to me and says Vhas
I Carl Dunder? l vhas. All right. Say,
Mr.. Dunder, dot mar next door TO me
vhas a nuisance. He keeps fife cats on
his place, und I like to know What dis
worldt vhas coming to when somepody
can keep sooch a nuisance und make m
troubles. Und 1 says to him:
"My frendt, how many dogs half you
got?
"Only four"
"Und vhas dose dogs some nuisance to
your neighbour"
II don't know und I doan' care"
"Ah! dot vhas shust it! What pleases
us vhas all right; What pleases der man
next door may be a nuisance. Dot vhas
shust der principles most men 60 Ply, und
dot vhas how half of US come to hat bris-
ties on our backs. Kill off your dogs und
den ask your neighbor to shoot his cats;
Doan' you pellet dot anybody created
dis world for your especial use, or dot laws
und principles which hit n Will skip
der neXt.n
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SUFFERING WOMEN
Read what the great Methodist Divine
and Eminent Physician Says Of
BRADFIELD'S FEMALE REGULATOR !
ATLANTA, GA, Feb. 20, 1884.

AlLANia, 'A', " w NJ
DIR. j. BRADFIELD !: Dear Sir-Some fifteen
years ago, I examined the recipe Of Female
Regulator, and carefully studied authorities in
regard to It's components, and then, as well as
now, pronounce it to be the most scientific and
skilful combination o fthe really reliable reme-
dial vegetable agents known to science, to act
directly on the womb and uterine organs, and
the organs and parts sympathizing directly
with these; and, therefore, providing aspecific
remedy for all diseases of the womb and of the
adjacent organs and parts. Yours truly,
JESSE BORING, M. D., d. d.
Bradtield's Female Regulator is only intend
ed for diseases peculiar to WOMEN, and for
these is a SPECIFIC. Sold by all druggists.
Send.f for our treatise on the Health and Hap
piness Of Woman, mailed free, which gives all
particulars.
THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO.,
Box %, Atlanta, Ga.
August IL 81 ly
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WHEN SHOULD WHEAT BE CUT.

The best time to cut wheat is a point of
great Importance to the farmer. The ex.
ceptionally high price of minnesota wheat
in our markets is largely due to the Sec
ton in which it grows. The most valua-
BILE constituents of a grain Of wheat are
gluten, starch, and a small amount OF phos-
pilates. Gluten forms flesh; starch is a
heat producer and forms fat. The per
cent. of gluten varies in different Kinds OF
wheat. Ohio wheats contain from ten to M
teen per cent, while starch may constitute
from fifty to sixty per cent. of the kernel.
Gluten is more nutritious than starch, its
composition more nearly resembles the
muscular tissue of animals.
Aside from the value of gluten as iood,
it has valuable properties, in combination
with starch, for making bread. Wheat
containing a small amount of gluten Is
softer, and will make much whittier flour,
for the gluten imparts a yellowish shade.
But, if flour contains too little gluten, IT
will not rise, even if yeast be added. Glu-
ten, like glue, forms, with water, a tena-
cious paste, so that when fermentive action
begins in the dough, the gluten forms a
cell around the carbonic acid gas, and re-
tains it, causing the dough to rise. When
baked, such bread is very light and sweet,
though not as white as when little gluten
is present. Many farmers are induced to
cut their wheat too soon, because the kernel
remains large and plump, from the moist
ure contained in the starch. Wheat con-
tanning a large amount of gluten will ap-
pear shrunken, because the gluten readily
yields it's moisture, but will be far more
valuable for food.
Repeated experiments have failed to
show any increase, either of starch or glu-
ten, from day to day, after wheat has been
cut. The only rule we can suggest, which
may apply to all varieties, is this: Delay
cutting aslong as is compatible with avoid
ing waste in handling. When cut, secure
it as promptly and as perfectly as possible.
To make the best bread, a good, sound,
glutinous variety of wheat must be sown
on sound, dry land j; it must get fully ripe
before it is harvested, be secured without
damage, and must be properly ground
american AQricuturiSt.
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Mnmuruns Department. The tffarm aud 9firesiae*

A NEEDED LEssoN.-Eastern Dame
eyes, this is the first time l have been in
Omaha since my daughter married and
settled here. I wish you would tell me
how she and her husband get along. l can
never make anything out from her letters,
she is so secretive. I know if she has any
troubles she hides them from me-"
Omaha Dame-"Her husband is a very
nice man, indeed"
81 am glad to think So"
"Yes, Clara always wa light tempered,
you know, but no matter how ugly she
getshe always answers pleasantly, and one
evening when I wa there he brought
home some zephyr she had asked for, and
it wasn't the right shade at all, and she
called him a perfect BRUTE and flung the
teapot at him and hit him with the poker
and then threw herself down On the floor
and kicked and screeched as if she'd take
the roof off, and all he said to her was: Il
am afraid you will ov%er-exert yourself, my
darling"
swell, I guess that taught her a lesson"
II hope So"
eyes, poor child, next time she'll know
better than to send a man to match
zephyrs. "-OnaahG World.
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EXECUTIONS IN FRANCE.-They have
no laundering executions in France.
The executioner is neither a hero nor
an o%utcast, as in other countries. The
system of execution has been simpli-
fled as much as possible. The instrument
is erected the night before, and tried on a
dummy to see that it works we'll. Form
erly the condemned was often tortured
and torn and hacked, and he was always
encouraged by having a good look at the
cleaning knife as he approached the
CHASTITY instrument. Now the knife is
hidden, the victim is in position in two or
three seconds, a noiseless touch of the but
ton and all is over.
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SURE ENOUGH, THAT EXPLAINS
Pompana-There is more in psychology
than you think of, Bagley. Let me relate
q queer case. T%hirty-four years ago my
friend Biged was shot in the side while
fighting Indians and with each recurring
Of that day, that very minute of the hour,
he feels the twinge Of the bullet and at no
other time. Now, can you account for
that?
Bagley-Very easily.
Indeed; How?
Your friend is a liar !-PhiG. Cal.
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Two LORDS OF CREATION.-Political
Boss-you are a renegade, sir. You prom
ised me you'd vote against women's suf-
frage, but when the bill came up you voted
for it. I've a great mind to thrash you.
Legislator-1've a great mind to thrash
you, sir. You took an oath to ME that
you would use all your influence to get the
other members to vote against it, and and
gallery and didn't do a thing.
"WeI, but my wife was there"
$50 was mine."
"Say, let's go take something "-Omahe
World.
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BRIDGE

~ County Commissioner of York county
will meet at GOFORTH'S MILL, on the
Adair's Ferry road, on SATURDAY, the 18th
day of JUNE, 1887, at 10 o'clock, A. NJ. The
object Of the meeting is to let out to the
lowest bidder, THE BUILDING OF A NEW
BRIDGE across Kings Creek. The contractor
will be required to give bond with two good
~sureties, in double the amount of bid, tor the
faithful performance of the contract. Plans
and specifications can be examined at the office
in Yorkville, and also at Goforth's Mill, on day
and date above mentioned. The Commission
ers reserve the right to. reject any and all bids.
BY order of the Board.
JAMES b. ALLISON, Clerk.
Nav % ol At
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A Boys ESTIMATE OF HIS MOTHERS
WoRK.-"My mother gets me up, builds
the fire, gets my breakfast and sends ME
off," said a bright youth.
What then" said the reporter.
"Then she gets my father up, and gets
his breakfast and sends him off, then
gets the other children their breakfast and
sends them to school and then she and
the baby have their breakfast"
GLOW old is the baby?"
"Oh. she is most two, but she can walk
and talk as we'll as any of u.s."
Are you we'll paid""
II get two dollars a week, father gets
two dollars a day."
"How much does your mother get?"
With a bewildered look the boy said:
"Mother! Why, she don't work for any
body" =,
II thought you said she worked for all
Of YOU"
. 30, yes, for all of us she does; but there
ant no money in it."-Americm Farmer.
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ODD ERRORS OF SPEECH.-The cores
pendent of a weekly contemporary sup
plies a few more genuine instances of NAL
apropisms. Thus, we hear of cholera NOR
bus being turned into ''mollery corbus,"
andof a local eight" bidding some one
beware of "inundations' in religion.
Amusing, too, is the ~unintentional perver-
sion of a we'll known line-"From Ice
lands greasy mountains" A villager,
asked if Mr.. M. lived in a certain house,
replied, eyes, he lives there, but he is
dead" But that is rather an 1rishism
than a Malaprop.-London Globe.
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HARRISON M H FARMER.-Gener-
al Harrison, during his months s~ojourn at
the White House, made himself very pop
ular, says Ben Perley Poore. He arose
every morning with the sun, took a long
walk, often returning through the market.
On one of these occasions he bought a new
mich COW from a neighboring farmer, and
requested him to drive it to the Presidents
house. The General was there to attend
the animal, and invited the farmer to take
some refreshments, procured a bow OF hot
coffee, ham and eggs, and continued con-
yersation with him about farming.
The farmer, having finished his break
fast, remarked to the General: "You have
bought my COW and given me s2more than
I asked, and a good breakfast besides, but
if it wouldn't be too much trouble, [ would
like to have a look at the President before
1 co." II am the President" replied the
General. The farmer at first looked in
credulous, having taken his hospitable
friend for the steward, but, convinced of
his mistake, with much f%rankness observ-
ed swell, General, I voted against you
at the election, but I didn't know you
then.n
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eI~Lily secretary of the cooking Glass;
CHOW, girls, we've learned nine cakes, two
kinds of angel food and seven pies. What
neXtm Susie (engaged)-"Dick's father
says Unjust learn to make bread" lndig-
nant chorus-"Bread! Absurd! What
are bakers for?"